The Avenue I Station has two side platforms on the local tracks of the three tracked line. The station's platforms are windscreened, and canopied for their entire lengths except for a small section at their northern ends. The canopy is held up by small-cantilevered beams that are also windscreened, the beams are painted green.
For exits, the station has two. The 24-hour booth exit is at the northern end of the station, a single staircase leads down from each platform to a small station house where the there is the turnstiles and the token booth faces them. This in turn leads out to two street stairs off the elevated to the NE and NW corners of Avenue I and McDonald Avenue, 20th Avenue ends at this same intersection at a diagonal heading Southwest.
There is a secondary unstaffed exit at the southern end of the station where a single staircase leads down from each platform to a High Exit Turnstile from the Coney Island-platform, and a single staircase is down to a High Entrance/Exit Turnstile from the Manhattan-bound platform. These in turn lead to staircases down to street level on eitherside of McDonald Avenue just north of Avenue J. The station house beneath the tracks for this secondary exit is still in existence it has just been converted to non-passenger uses so there is no longer a free crossunder at this end of the station, and this end of the platform is Exit Only on the Coney Island-bound side.
Photo 1-27: July 6, 2009
A Coney Island-bound R46 F train leaves Avenue I.
A 5 car newly delivered R160 set that hasn't entered service enters Avenue I running southbound towards Coney Island
The back of the OOS R160 train set, and a venerable R46 F train pass each other near Avenue I.
R46 #6070 and a Manhattan-bound F train start to exit their platform at Avenue I.
R46 #6070 and a Manhattan-bound F train continue to leave Avenue I, with the Empire State Building visible as their backdrop. They will stop beneath the State Building quite a bit later.
A view down the empty Coney Island-bound side platform at Avenue I.
Another view down the empty, windscreened Coney Island-bound side platform at Avenue I.
An Avenue I platform sign on the cream-colored metal windscreen.
A staircase down for the High Exit Turnstile that leads to McDonald Avenue and Avenue J from the Coney Island-bound platform at Avenue I.
The single High Exit Turnstile out from the Coney Island-bound platform at Avenue I.
Approaching the exit only staircase down from street level from the Coney Island-bound platform at its Avenue J exit.
Looking back at the No entry sign on the streetside of the High Exit Turnstile at Avenue I.
The bottom of the No entry staircase exit at Avenue J down from the Coney Island-bound platform. For some reason it has just had a green entrance globe installed at it. Perhaps this means a High Entrance/Exit Turnstile will be added here in the near future.
Looking down McDonald Avenue beneath the Avenue I station, at the no longer in passenger use station house at the Avenue J end of the station.
The bottom of the Manhattan-bound platform's High Entrance Turnstile entrance at Avenue J for the Avenue I station.
Approaching the entrance to the Manhattan-bound platform at Avenue I with the end of the Manhattan-bound platform just visible on the top of this photo.
Approaching the single High Entrance Turnstile that provides entry to the Manhattan-bound platform at the Avenue J end of Avenue I, notice a locked door into the no longer in passenger use station house, and the wood floor of this small mezzanine.
Looking up from street level at the High Entrance Turnstile into the Avenue I station and with the end of the Manhattan-bound platform also visible.
The station house beneath the tracks where the 24-hour token booth is with a couple of open windows that are from some non-public areas at Avenue I.
Another view of a side of the open station house beneath the tracks at Avenue I.
Last Updated: February 23, 2022
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